Word: borgese
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NOW having passed seventy", writes Borges in his preface to Doctor Brodie's Report, "I believe I have found my own voice". A strange remark, for the author of a fiction which challenges the very premises of individual identity or ontological certainty. Borges goes on to describe his stories--"To...
Typically, the stories in Dr. Brodie's Report are characterized by their brevity, precision, and subtlety of style. Borges has always claimed that he cannot write long fiction, and furthermore that he sees no reason to go on for hundreds of pages conveying a situation which can be concentrated into...
THE Gospel According to St. Mark opens the collection setting a kind of time-conception which operates in several other stories. Borges calls it the best in the book. It is, at least, the most carefully conceived. In dispassionate and precise language, the narrator describes events which took place on...
LIKE poems, Borges's stories lose nearly everything in summary. Though carefully structured, The Gospel According to St. Mark offers no blatant symbolism. Each sentence conveys a sense of the ending--not an obvious foreboding, but rather an enigmatic key, to which we ultimately--at the last sentence--find a...
Other stories in the collection have the same mixture of the commonplace and the mysterious, the concrete and the metaphysical. In a certain sense, these stories do partake in a "realism" which is different from Borges's earlier works. The stories collected in Ficciones and Labyrinths have been appropriately called...